Curriculum Vitae: Jan Paul Posma

• Education

  • 2011 – present

    MSc in Computer Science, University of Oxford

    I am currently reading Computer Science at the University of Oxford.

    ox.ac.uk
  • 2008 – 2011

    Computer Science bachelor, University of Groningen

    I have completed the Computer Science bachelor at the University of Groningen with an average score of 8.3 (out of 10). In 2009 I received my propedeuse. For a period of six months I did a minor in Mathematics.

    rug.nl
  • 2002 – 2008

    Willem Lodewijk Gymnasium, Groningen

    I followed the track Nature and Technology, which focuses on exact sciences. Besides the main courses and the courses from this track, I studied economics and ancient Greek. My graduation project was PimpMyBike. I also maintained the school's website.

    wlg.nl, janpaulposma.nl/pimpmybike

• Professional experience

  • 2011

    Wikimedia Foundation (web developer)

    I have worked for Wikimedia Foundation in the features team, developing new tools for Wikipedia, sister projects, and other wikis running the open source MediaWiki software. For the most time I worked on WikiLove, a feature that got major media coverage, but I was also involved in the discussion about building a new parser, a major project which enables developers to build a visual editor in the future.

    wikimediafoundation.org, wikipedia.org, mediawiki.org, http://news.google.com/?q=wikilove, http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Future
  • 2010 – 2011

    University of Groningen (teaching assistant)

    As a teaching assistant for Computer Science courses at the University of Groningen, I have teached at practical sessions, written teaching materials, and reviewed and graded submitted work.

    rug.nl
  • 2009 – 2010

    WorldTicketShop (web developer)

    At WorldTicketShop I was one of the first hires to work on the new marketplace. Although working only part-time for most of the time, I built large parts of the critical infrastructure of the site, made sure the transition between the old and the new site went well, did some of the dynamic parts of the front-end and was in charge of the performance.

    worldticketshop.com
  • summer of 2009

    Cantouch (multitouch developer intern)

    At Cantouch I worked on the Cube, which is a large multi-touch table supporting many touches at the same time, which made it really interesting to build applications for this device. I built two promotional applications for Technische Unie, a Dutch wholesale business.

    youtu.be/3163Llr5qBs
  • 2008 – 2009

    Triati (web developer)

    At Triati I worked on seoAssistant, a web application to monitor performance of websites in search engines. Then I built sportCMS, a website system for small communities, such as sport clubs.

    triati.com
  • 2006 – 2007

    Aerotronic (web developer)

    I worked on the webshop, which primarily sells remote-controlled helicopters. I improved the user experience and developed new modules.

    aerotronic.nl
  • Contact information for references can be supplied upon request.

• Other experience

  • 2010 – 2011

    Bachelor thesis research

    For my bachelor thesis I have researched new ways of editing wikis such as Wikipedia. In October 2010 I presented preliminary results at the MediaWiki Hack-A-Ton in Washington D.C. on invitation of the Wikimedia Foundation. In 2011 development continued in close collaboration with developers of GRNET, a Greek government-funded research institute. The final thesis can be found online.

    wikipedia.org, wikimediafoundation.org, grnet.gr, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:In-line_Editing_thesis.pdf
  • 2010

    IKEA (project manager for student development project)

    I participated in an international software engineering project, coordinated by the university, to develop an internal webapplication for IKEA. This was done in cooperation with students from the Linnaeus University in Växjö. I was the project manager of a team of 11 students.

    ikea.com, lnu.se
  • 2009 – 2011

    Cover and FMF (committee work)

    Having been an active member of both Cover and FMF, I did committee work for those student organizations.

    svcover.nl, fmf.nl
  • 2009

    Fronteers conference (volunteer)

    I volunteered in organizing the Fronteers conference about front-end web development.

    fronteers.nl/congres/2009/information
  • 2008 – 2011

    Science Center North (volunteer)

    As an unpaid volunteer, I work at SCN with children (age 10–18) on electronics and programming projects. I teach about soldering, (embedded) programming, and the drawing of schematics and circuit boards. I have developed a set of example projects for newcomers to start with.

    stichting-scn.nl

  • Various open source projects

    I developed parts of usbpicprog, an open source, open hardware project, consisting of a hardware device and a piece of cross-platform C++ software.
    I founded OpenLaserFrag, an open source, open hardware laser-tag game. I built the original hardware and software, which is now being built on without my involvement.
    On my GitHub page, there are some more projects I started or contributed to.

    usbpicprog.org, openlaserfrag.org, github.com/janpaul123

• Prizes, awards and scholarships

  • 2011

    Apps for Noord-Holland

    In this open data competition my application won the golden prize (€2000) in the category Tourism and Culture.
  • 2011

    Huygens Scholarship

    The Huygens Scholarship Programme awarded me a scholarship (€21255) to finance my studies in Oxford.
  • 2009, 2010

    IWI programming contest

    With Roan Kattouw
    In this university contest we secured the 1st place (€50) as a junior team in 2009.
    With Roan Kattouw and Herbert Kruitbosch
    In 2010 we competed in the senior league, and got the 2nd place (€35).
  • 2009

    Benelux Algorithm Programming Contest

    With Roan Kattouw and Herbert Kruitbosch
    In this national contest we secured the 10th place nationally, and the 1st place within our university.
  • 2009

    Young Talent award

    The Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities awarded me a Young Talent award (€500).
  • 2007, 2008

    National Informatics Olympiad

    This competition is aimed at solving algorithmic problems and implementing them. In the national rounds I secured a 5th place in 2007 and 7th place in 2008.
  • 2006, 2007

    RoboChallenge Junior

    With Marc van Beest
    The aim of this national competition was to build a robot that is able to navigate on a grid and perform certain tasks. Our robot won the 1st place (€ 250) in 2006, and the 3rd place in 2007.
• Other activities include playing the piano and the occasional skiing and sailing. I enjoy building interesting things: one example is a glass harp — a musical instrument — which was featured in an MTV short. For more information on my personal interests, please visit my blog: janpaulposma.nl.
• You can find an interactive version of this document online at janpaulposma.nl/cv.